Imagine accessing supercomputing infrastructure over the Internet? A small South African company, based at Wits University in Johannesburg, is doing just that, providing some of the country’s biggest companies – and universities around the world – with access to infrastructure
Author: Sunil Gopal
The South African government made no requests to Facebook to restrict content on the social networking website in the second half of 2014, while it made just two requests for access to Facebook
A leadership crisis at the department of telecommunications & postal services is threatening to boil over after director-general Rosey Sekese fired one of her deputies, Gift Buthelezi, via an SMS this week while he was on leave. TechCentral has established
Ucook is a start-up tantalising the tastebuds of foodies in Cape Town. It’s based on a concept called the dinner kit delivery service, but with an important difference: the customer still does the cooking. Run by David Torr and Christopher Verster-Cohen with angel investor
South African consumers aren’t going to have to wait long for the new Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, unveiled at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The new phones will go on sale in South Africa on 10 April, according to a posting on Vodacom’s
Mixo Ngoveni is an amiable guy, which probably accounts for why he has been able to build his Geekulcha start-up as quickly as he has. Based at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria, the start-up has become the focal point for training, events and workshops for black students
A joint sitting in parliament on digital migration was packed to the rafters this morning. But the stars of the show, communications minister Faith Muthambi and telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele, failed to appear. Their deputies
Cabinet’s decision to provide free set-top boxes to 5m poor South Africans does not go far enough, two public broadcasting advocacy groups have said. Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition say government should have required that
What’s going on at Microsoft? The company is producing great software – and now hardware – that supports a range of platforms, not just Windows. The latest example of this is the new Office for Mac, which was released in preview form last week. It’s
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the world’s biggest cellphone industry get-together and an event that hardware manufacturers use to showcase their latest gadgets. Here’s what grabbed our eye at 2015’s show